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The UK based organisation Nesta published another report, this time taking a look at the creative economy employment in the EU and UK. According to the report , creative industries employ 11.4 millions people in the EU, 5% of the total workforce. The country with the largest share of workforce concentrated in creative industries is […]

European Commission with the European Investment Fund have announced the launch of a new 121 million guarantee initiative to help SMEs in cultural and creative sectors to access financing. The money will be made available through financial institutions. It is expected, that more than 600 million worth of bank loans will be created by the […]

‘The Fusion Effect: The Economic returns to combining art and science skills’ is one of several studies conducted by the UK based organisation NESTA. This time the researchers from NESTA decided to take a look at how do british companies profit from combining both artistic and scientific skills in their workforce. The results have shown […]

British organisation NESTA has published a new report analysing creative industries and cities of three of the world’s leading economies: the U.S., the UK, and Canada. In order to produce the report the researches Max Nathan, Tom Kemeny, Andy Pratt, and Greg spencer, have taken the size, the growth, and the geography of creative employment […]

On 18th of July Nucl.ai, the largest conference concerned with artificial intelligence in creative industry, is coming to Vienna. The three day event will be taking place in the Law Faculty of University of Vienna, and the attendees will have an opportunity to choose from over 60 lectures by internationally acknowledged experts, programmers, analytics, and […]

Crowdfunding4culture, an initiative financed by the European Union, is a project with the purpose to identify the best ways of using crowdfunding in the cultural and the creative sectors of the industry. One of the many ways, the European Commission uses do determine the perceptivity of crowdfunding for cultural organizations and creative workers, are also […]

Based on the recently published study by Hill Strategies Research, it turns out that in 2014 the GDP of Canada’s cultural industry reached 61 billion dollars, 3.3% of the country’s GDP. In other words, the value of cultural industries is larger than that of agriculture (29 billion dollars), accommodation and food services (38 billion dollars), […]

Europa Nostra Awards 2017 or the EU Prize For Cultural Heritage, a project launched by the citizens’ movement Europa Nostra and supported by the European Commission, announces call for entries. The aim of the project is to honor the outstanding heritage achievements within Europe. The awards are given in four categories: conservation research dedicated service […]

8.6.2016 European Commission issued a press release, informing the public about the adoption of ‘Strategy for international cultural relations’. The strategy was presented by the European Commission together with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The aim is to ‘encourage cultural cooperation between the EU and its partner countries’ and to promote […]

KMPG Slovakia have recently published their third annual Startup Ecosystem Survey Slovakia 2016, stating that during the upcoming 12 moths more than 30 million euros will be made available for Slovak startups. 72% of investors consists of venture capital, 17% is comprised of business angels, and the banks constitute the remaining 11%. Curiously, the number of […]

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